chalga

This is a music genre which is very popular in Bulgaria. It is also known as Pop-Folk. The 'chalga' has many things in common with Turkish and Serbian music, but can also include some elements from Bulgarian folklore. Anyway it has typical oriental elements (inharited from the times of the Ottoman Empire which ruled the region for about five centuries), combined with a modern pop sounding. This type of music is generally listened at parties and people who have drunk lots of alchohol enjoy it very much. This can be a logical explanation for the senceless or even vulgar lyrics in many such songs, performed usually by gypsies. This genre creates songs for entertaining the masses (and probably many people do entertain themselves listening to such senceless songs). Many people lebel those senceless songs 'chalga' without realizing that 'chalga' is actually the type of music, which is typical for the whole Balkan region, and believe me, there are songs of high quality with nice lyrics (usualy about love relationships, searching for the 'one' and etc).